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Advocates urge Senate to restore lead‑abatement funds cut in House HB 96 version
Summary
Public‑health and healthy‑homes advocates told the Senate Health Committee that cuts to lead abatement and Lead Safe Home Fund line items in the House bill would halt testing, investigations and abatement work that protects children across every Ohio county.
Advocates for lead poisoning prevention asked the Senate Health Committee to restore funding the House removed from Ohio’s lead abatement and Lead Safe Home Fund line items in the House version of HB 96.
Fred Strayhorn, executive director of the Ohio Healthy Homes Network, told the committee that two‑thirds of Ohio housing likely contains lead…
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